[LAD] Routing signals in mixer (Ardour, Qtractor)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 20:46 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 20:39 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 14:23 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > What if you want to use MIDI control as your "side chain" (
> > > 
> > > just for the record, ardour3 in SVN can now do this. i'm not
> > > suggesting that anyone actually try it out yet, though, and anyway, i
> > > know of no plugins that can do this at present.
> > 
> > At least some VSTs could do, but I never used those myself. Perhaps
> > auto-tune? Some vocoders? And for gates this should be a feature too,
> > but I guess on Mac and Win they go another way, those gates take a look
> > to the waveforms with an offset, but I might be wrong. Anyway, I'm sure
> > there are some VSTs.
> 
> Btw. this could be done with Linux too, if there should be gates with
> side chain. Just copy an audio track, give this audio track an offset
> and only use it for the side chain, to gate the original track.

On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 10:21 -0700, Niels Mayer wrote: 
> A good example of this would be using a fast on/off
> repeating "note" in midi to gate an existing signal -- to give that
> old school rave sound to synths

So instead of using MIDI to do this, you could record an audio track with short signals, to do the same by an audio side chain ;).